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Africa, Agroforestry, Crop-Livestock, Crops, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification, Malawi, NRM, Research, Soils, Southern Africa, Trees, Water

Integrating perennials with food crops could restore soil health and increase staple yields

Today’s edition of Naturehas an article by Jerry Glover, John Reganold and Cindy Cox in which they explain, with examples from Malawi harmer Rhoda Mang’yana, how planting ...

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Africa, Animal Feeding, Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ICARDA, ILRI, Intensification, Participation

Feed and fodder ‘early win’ project synthesis shows potential of assessment tools

The Africa RISING QuickFeed ‘early win’ project held its synthesis meeting on 3 and 4 September 2012. The project was led by ILRI and ICARDA with the ...

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CIMMYT, ILRI, Intensification, Participation, Research

Participatory agricultural research for development – whose participation, whose research, whose development?

Compared with other Ethiopian Highland early win projects, the  ‘Research for Development‘ project focused on the research process so as to propose a flexible and generic approach to ...

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Africa, CIMMYT, Crop-Livestock, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, Participation

Participatory research for development in Africa RISING – an email exchange

Over the last few days, in relation with an upcoming final workshop for the ‘farm scale research design‘ early win project, an interesting e-mail exchange took place between Prof. ...

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